Hello Jiva, hello list,
* Jiva DeVoe wrote on Aug/16/2006:
Right, and this works great - EXCEPT my windowmanager... it starts up
Etoile and everything, but my WM does not start at all. This means I
can't move windows etc.
So how does one SET the windowmanager you want to use? I'm guessing
this is probably the problem. Also, what WM are you using?
Heh -- suddenly I feel very dumb. Please accept my apologies. I came to
realize that what I achieved was /not/ everything you'd expect. What is
achieved is this: It uses Azalea, etoile's own windowmanager, a fork of
openbox. So I have a menu when I right-click on the desktop, can launch
fbrun (which I have configured in ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml), xterm and
so on.
What the problem in my case is: Only those apps handled by Azalea (i.e.
launched via menu or from xterm/fbrun) have a window frame and titlebar.
So I can only move/resize those apps, but not those handled by GNUstep.
E.g, when I enter 'openapp TalkSoup' in fbrun/xterm, there is a new
window created with the correct application, and I get the menu on the
top of the screen, but I can't move/resize the window for wont of a
frame/grabbing handle.
Also, etoile's top-menu shows only on the first workspace.
It seems I have been so overly happy that I got it to launch /at all/
after many problems that the persisting problems crept out of my memory
(right now I am back in blackbox).
Do you have Azalea's resources copied to the right places?
(Services/Private/Azalea/Resources -- xml files go to
~/.config/openbox/; theme/Azalea directory goes to /usr/share/themes)
At one place it has been said that it can't hurt to install openbox
beforehand in order to have all dependencies in place. I have done it,
but I can't tell if it was really necessary.
BTW, on another occasion, I have launched /usr/local/bin/etoile_system
from /within/ my window manager (blackbox), and got at least some
success.
Sorry again for being overly optimistic and too hasty in my first mail.
Andreas
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